Poll Results: Your Picks for the Batman 3 Villains

We asked, you answered: who should be the villains in Christopher Nolan’s third Batman movie?

I was impressed by the variety of the choices: every option got at least one vote, there were only a few ties, and with two votes allowed per person, there seventy-two votes total. So how did it break down?

The Riddler definitively won with fourteen votes. He’s been the fan-favorite choice for a while, dating back at least to that awesome mock-up poster that came out shortly after The Dark Knight. In the poll, he started out slow and gained most of his votes in the past few days.

The Penguin came in second with eleven votes, and like the Riddler started out slow before gaining steam. Personally, I don’t think he could be done in a manner different enough from Batman Returns to warrant his return to the big screen, but many of you disagreed.

Harley Quinn came in third with eight votes, and was the leader of the pack for the first few days. She was one of my votes, because (a) it’s a way to continue the Joker narrative, (b) we’ve never seen her in a movie before, and (c) she’s a great character.

Catwoman was fourth with six votes. Glad to see Harley Quinn garnered more. The problem with Catwoman is that you’d have to make her a new love interest to Bruce, and she’s not strong enough to be the main villain, so she’d be stuck in the same dynamic as Batman Returns.

Bane got five votes, tied with the “Create a completely original villain” option. Bane was my other choice after a commenter on my recent Batman 3 article made a convincing argument — the film could loosely follow Bane’s arc in the comics, in which he actually defeated Batman for a while, rather than the buffoonish Batman and Robin version of the character.

Clayface scored four votes, tied with the “Bring the Joker back with a different actor” option. The former would certainly be interesting in Nolan’s hands (if CGI-heavy). As for the latter: it would be tricky, but I wouldn’t rule it out as a bad idea. I’ve seen fanboys pushing for Joseph Gordon-Levitt to take over the role, and frankly, I’d be interested to see what he could do.

“Batman vs. Superman is the way to go” only got two votes. Good.

Poison Ivy, finally, got a single vote. Which I’m also fine with. Uma Thurman was great and all, but the character has always been famous for being hot. And I could do without an environmental theme in a Batman movie.

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Well I would love to see Johnny depp, Jim Carrey or Leonardo Di Caprio play the role of Joker. I am pretty sure Jared Leto would be able to portray joker in a decent manner in Suicide Squad without tarnishing what Heath Ledger did to the role.catalina island hotels

Batman movie is all time favorite movies for me. The first two parts are wonderful and made good a collections. The villain character in this movie is called as Joker. I want see a new face as a villain in batman 3 with total different make up and different style and he must have peculiar gesture in his acting.